The 1966 Triumph GT6 arrived as a compact coupé that wanted to punch far above its weight, chasing the kind of speed and glamour usually reserved for bigger, pricier machines. You see that ambition in ...

A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at ...